A Chinese red- cooking braise– good for any shanks, but you need strong tasty almost tough meat. What you should end up with is a kind of Chinese osso bucco with more than a hint of chile– restaurant good & fork tender. Mine but owes much to Fuchsia Dunlop… Preheat the oven to a pretty …
Month: December 2011
Rigby
The .275 Rigby takes a second elk for Jonathan. No seller’s remorse here. Well, maybe a TINY bit… but if they make us elk shanks a la Chinoise, more or less after Fuchsia Dunlap, I will forget it….
Dog News and Possibilities…
A future father of Q dogs? Shiri’s tazi Tavi who lives up the road. Still a pup but…A BIG descendant of Q dogs: Dan’s prodigious pup:Clint Chisler’s excellent longdog Lucy– there will be field tales soon…
Darne!
By cosmic coincidence not one but two of my old French Darne shotguns visited this weekend. Scott Elliot has the shot and ball gun designed for me. In this one you can see the quarter rib and sights… and the unique sliding breech:Then falconer and dog in- law Bodie Littlejohn came by after a duck …
John Lincoln Wright RIP
The finest country and country swing musician in New England, John Lincoln Wright, died last week at 64. He was a friendly acquaintance rather than a close friend; we attended Boston College together for a brief couple of months together in ’67 (we both left); and later I worked in a Cambridge bar (the lamented …
Terence Wright’s Cog
Recently Terence Wright’s 12 year old Gyr- Prairie tiercel Cog starred with partner Loki the lurcher in a video here. Yesterday he was killed on a jack by a coyote before Loki and Terence could get to him. He will be missed; he was one of the best hare falcons I have ever seen, and …
Agricultural Archaeology and More
Here is an article I found via the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Mississippi River floods from the spring of this year have apparently scoured away enough sediment to expose a cotton field that was buried by the legendary 1927 Mississippi River floodin Coahoma County, Mississippi. From the article: “Like washing away a layer of mud from the …
Armed Buddhists and Warrior Women (quotes); Mexican Gun Laws
“T’ang was the high point of much poetry, and of Ch’an [Zen] Buddhist creativity, but it must be remembered that it was not peopled by effete scholars in flowing robes who detested violence. It was a time of hardy Northern derived gentry who were skilled horsepersons and archers and falconers, hard drinkers and fighters. Women …
Hot Links
We’ve posted several times here at the Q blog about the expansion of jaguar range back into southern Arizona, but until I saw this article I didn’t know ocelots were back as well. Names are proposed for two new elements that will be added to the periodic table. I know why they’re doing it, but …
Last Child in the Woods?
There are advantages to life in the suburbs, at least in a state known as the Sportsman’s Paradise. I gather most suburban kids have more in common with urban kids than rural ones when it comes to hands-on wildlife experience. Luckily for our children, the wildlife is close at hand and the neighbors are …